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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
It's no longer any secret that Blu-ray has taken a clear lead at the point of sale over its rival HD DVD high definition video format. No matter how you spin it, Blockbuster and Nielsen VideoScan report more Blu-ray than HD DVD discs being rented and sold. Sales and rentals are largely a factor of two things: high definition player sales and movie studio support. The latter is where things get murky, why the war is still not over and why the EU has entered the fight.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
News that hackers are out in force in an effort to "free" the iPhone hardware from the constraints on its use imposed by the activation process and the exclusivity of its carrier deal with AT&T are instructive. The biggest issue appears to be that despite paying US$600 iPhone owners will never actually own "the best iPod ever built."
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
Lately, Universal Music Group has displayed a penchant for flexing its muscles by taking on some of the world's most powerful media players. First it was Google's YouTube over alleged copyright infringement, then it was News Corp's MySpace, and now it is Apple iTunes. The fact is UMG is probably all bluff.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
Lately, Universal Music Group has displayed a penchant for flexing its muscles by taking on some of the world's most powerful media players. First it was Google's YouTube over alleged copyright infringement, then it was News Corp's MySpace, and now it is Apple iTunes. The fact is UMG is probably all bluff.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
Now that the iPhone is out in the hands of real reviewers rather than the selected Apple friendlies who got previews prior to release, the real story is emerging. The gist of it is that Apple's new baby is a ripper of a multi-function device but if you're looking for a good high-end mobile phone don't buy an iPhone.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
It may come as a shock to adoring Michael Moore fans but not everyone agrees with him or the ways he expresses his views through the medium of film making. Thus, when Google blogger Lauren Turner, who sells Google advertising to the healthcare industry, expressed relatively mild and veiled criticism of Moore's new film Sicko in a company blog and suggested ways her clients could combat negative publicity through advertising, outrage ensued.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
It’s a testimony to the drawing power of the iPhone and marketing prowess of Apple that consumers are prepared to overlook the fact that it’s only available in the US on an obsolete Edge network. That may be good enough for US consumers but it probably won’t wash in Europe, much of Asia and here in Australia.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 28 June 2007 |
Unlike a few privileged reviewers, I haven't had a chance to thoroughly test Apple's new wonder gadget but I have held one in my hands and played with it for a few minutes. It's a beautiful piece of engineering and it will sell well, but only in a limited market space.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
If you happen to be an American child of the ruling class then chances are you have or are aspiring to have a Facebook account; if you're a working class child then Myspace is probably your online social network of choice. At least that's what PhD candidate Danah Boyd contends in an essay on her website.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
With the announcement that Blockbuster has decided to give HD DVD the flick from shelves of 1450 stores after an initial trial of 250 stores, many market watchers have declared Blu-ray the winner of the high definition video format wars. However, the HD DVD camp is far from admitting defeat and they claim to have some good reasons. But do they?
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 |
The EBay boycott of Google AdWords advertising is over as many predicted it would be. However, EBay says it will spend less of its budget on Google advertising and more on rival search sites, such as Yahoo, AOL and MSN.
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by Stan Beer
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Saturday, 23 June 2007 |
The most anticipated and hyped mobile phone in history goes on sale this time next week and the question on the minds of many outside the throng of loyal Apple faithful is will the iPhone live up to the hype or will it, under real world conditions, be found to have a glass jaw.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 22 June 2007 |
Imagine a state government agency entrusting highly personal details of more than 300,000 citizens to the safe-keeping of a 22 year old employee in training and asking that inexperienced young worker to take the sensitive data out of the office and keep it at his house overnight. It's hard to believe that such a thing could happen. But happen it did, as did the dire consequences such a foolish action invited.
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